In addition to our support of programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and our activism in the U.S., IWHC works on a global scale through conferences, meetings, and networking to influence population and health professionals, national governments, and international agencies.

We participate in coalitions such as HERA (Health, Empowerment, Rights & Accountability) -- a 26-member international advocacy force that focuses on the implementation of the Cairo Consensus and the Beijing Platform for Action in the policies of the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and United Nations development agencies.

We publish and distribute books and essays on the theory and practice of the women's health movement to maintain a global communications network. Some of our publications are available in French, Spanish, and Portuguese, in response to the requests that we receive from our Southern colleagues. Popular titles include: The Cairo Consensus The Right Agenda for the Right Time, The Culture of Silence Reproductive Tract Infections Among Women in the Third World, and Women Redrawing the Map: The World After the Beijing and Cairo Conferences.

We support leaders and organizations in Southern countries to work with governments on policy issues that are critical to women's health and rights. For example, following a staff visit to Vietnam in early 1996, IWHC agreed to support our longstanding Indonesian colleague, Ms. Ninuk Widyantoro, in her work with the government of Vietnam on reproductive health policy, counseling and sexuality.

We contribute to curriculum change, primarily through dissemination of our publications and those of other activists and scholars concerned with women's sexual and reproductive health and rights and the Cairo agenda. As part of this effort, we have compiled a list of articles, books and monographs that could be used by professors and doctoral students to teach Cairo and reproductive health at the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are also compiling a list of academics and doctoral students interested in or already teaching the Cairo agenda, sexual health, and women's reproductive health and rights in university courses to exchange information, teaching materials, and resources. IWHC publications are already used in courses on health and human rights at Princeton and Georgetown, population policies and international development at Harvard, and women, reproductive health and population policies at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, among others.